Advertising and demonstrating device.



E. H. HUTTON.

ADVERTISING AND DEMONSTRATING DEVICE APPLICATION FILED NOV. 5. 1914.

1 ,262,673 Patented Apr. 16, 1918.

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ADVERTISING AND DEMONSTBATING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 16, 1918.

Application filed November 5, 1914. Serial No. 870,537.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST HOPKINS HUT- ToN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Advertising and Demonstrating Device, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a demonstrating and advertising device. The object thereof is to provide a transparent and leakageprooi' container in which a solid sample is immersed in a fluid. The invention consists essentially in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts, substantially as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating my invention:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved demonstrating and advertising device;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a modified form of the same;

Figs. 3, A and 5 are side elevations of still further modifications of the invention.

A denotes a transparent cover or outer casing of glass or some similar suitable material which is mounted upon a base 0 which may have a solid form, as in Figs. 1 and 5, or may be dish-shaped, as in Fig. 2. Within the cover or casing A is a solid sample B, which is offered for test and demonstration, the same being a water-resisting compound such as paint, varnish, enamel. or like material, for which the claim is made that they cannot be affected in the least degree by any kind or amount of liquid such as water, etc. The solid sample B is situated within the external transparent cover in such a manner as to leave an annular space between it and the cover, which space is filled with water or other liquld, either one or several kinds which have a direct contact with the solid sample B so that the same is exposed to whatever effect might ossibly be produced thereon by the water.

f course, this device is intended principally to display to the public an exhibition of the contact of varnish or paint with water similar to what would take place when a varnished part is open to attacks of weather through heavy rains and the like, and the purpose is to demonstrate that such paint or varnish is water-proof and is never affected in the slightest degree by any amount of moisture; hence, by oifering a submerged sample the proof of the water resisting quality of the paint is made complete and satisfactory. An ingenious, neat, very simple and eliicient method of demonstrating the quality of paint or varnish is, therefore, offered by the submerging of a solid sample within an annular body of surrounding water all covered by a transparent casing. In the form of the invention indicated in Fig. 3, I show the solid sample B projecting through the part to which the glass casing A is attached, the device being as if it were reversed in position and being provided with a ring D by which it can be hung up. In Fig. 4 the base, to which the glass easing is attached and on which the solid sample B is mounted, is small and not larger in diameter than the casing A, so that this form, as well as the form in Fig. 3, is con venient for the pocket. The forms shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 5 are suitable for a desk, show window, display counter, and other places. If desired, the glass casing A, after being filled with water and secured on the base C, may be closed with an official seal, such as a lead seal, and stamped and dated in such a manner as to indicate that the contents could not readily have been tampered with after having been scaled.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A demonstrating and advertising device for displaying a varnish or other material,

consisting of a sample of thematerial to be tested, a transparent outer casing surrounding the same so as to provide an annular chamber containing water in direct contact with the sample, and a base for supporting the sample and the cover, on which base the transparent outer casing is mounted.

ERNEST HOPKINS HUTTON.

IVitnesses C. L. AoNnR,

CARRIE L. AGNER,

FLORENCE A. SOHROEDER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Iatents,

Washington, D. C. i 

